The pictures are all out of focus and blurry. I've tried every setting. Any way to fix this?
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Also... be sure you allow the camera to autofocus before taking the picture, it does this with a partial (light) press of the shutter button.... you will know it has auto focused as it will beep and show a green target in the display, once you see the green target press the rest of the way on the shutter button and the camera will take the picture.
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I absolutely did not encounter this issue... this camera took excellent pictures both in and out of the water. However, one thing you may want to check, if you are taking dry pictures (not in the water), be sure that the scene mode is not set to shoot under water... that is sure to create some image quality issues.
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My own operates fine particularly on sunny days. The flash is decent too with clear shots of close subjects. You may have gotten a defective camera.
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You must take enough time to focus, I have taken many pictures and videos and they turn out just great, check if there is any humidity inside the camera or between the lenses and the case...
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You need to use auto focus if you don't want to manually focus in and out on close ups or long distance shots. It sounds like you zoomed to fast and it couldn't adjust fast enough or you have it set to some weird manual setting. This happened to me that's why I am trying to offer advice.
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Try going to the custom menu and turning on Shoot w/o Lens. The lens is manual and the camera cannot use automatic settings.
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Tracy I would keep looking for another camera. I've adjusted settings on this camera, even setting it to sport mode to remove shake, but pictures continually blur. It's difficult to take good shots even when people are just incidentally moving their arms or changing positions. I've noticed in the review section others having the same difficulty with this camera. It's not user error it's something inherent in the camera.
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Try full automatic mode. The auto focus of this camera is not very good. You might also try to increase the shutter speed and or verify the ASA setting is OK. I hope this helps!
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I have the same problem with this camera. Focus is soft and there are noticeable chromatic aberrations (aura you're talking about), there's also noticeable barrel effect (people look wider off-center). Honestly, optics is pretty bad on this camera. The focusing system also seems to be hit and miss but mostly miss. I set mine in manual mode with center focusing and even then the image is far from what I'm used to call "in focus". I'm surprised this camera is rated this high. My older Canon S410 takes consistently better images.
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I'd be curious to know as well. The 720SW had a fairly slow shutter, and one had to really concentrate to get a non-blurry photo. Unless, you enabled the stabilization, and then the photo got a little grainy... Anybody have feedback on that?
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Mine are blurry and yellow; slow for movement- not much luck with that setting. New to the Cyber-shot, would love the pictures to come out; for we have daughters that play basketball
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I actually am going to try and return the Nikon CoolPix I recently purchased. The auto focus is not working correctly and the zoom takes too long to focus to take good action pictures. Once focused, it goes blurry when you snap the picture. May be only my camera, but I was unable to take ANY pictures of my daughter when she rode in an evening parade recently. I suspect it has a defective auto focus since no one else can get it to work either. You might want to go to a local camera store and try one out before purchasing. The camera is nice sized and has a great zoom ability which is why I bought it to use at my daughter's horse shows.
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I actually returned this camera because of this exact problem. The pictures were very smeared like a painting. I would go with the Canon S or G series over this.
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Has anyone else found it impossible to get the fisheye to focus? It's blurry as heck.
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I haven't written a review, and haven't even read the other reviews (yet), but I am *definitely* having the soft focus and out of focus problems you are referring to. I can take 10 consecutive pictures - same lighting/angle, etc. and maybe one will be a good picture, 4 not so good, and 5 completely unusable. I wonder if certain models cause this, or if some of these were just defective. I bought because of all the positive reviews, but wish I would've spoke up when I first received my camera.
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I am also VERY frustrated with this. Many of my pictures are coming out blurry despite holding the button half way down to focus before firing. The manual is mute on the subject. I just called Canon and they were basically no help---just said to make sure the flash was up when firing inside. I have the SD card in that it came with. Any other ideas??Thanks!!!!!!
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My experience: return/sell the camera and buy anything else. Sorry I couldn't help more - but the camera is very poor quality.
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I'm habing the same issue. Have tried seeting camera to MXP and FXP and am getting lots of grainyness and aritfacts. Anyone have and solve this issue?
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Have you used a calibration disk of any kind? I recommend the "WoW" from Walt Disney. It improved my picture even though it wasn't off much.
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I would go with the other comment by EDay. I usually have found if my camera is not performing a certain function it is probably a setting has accidently been changed. Sometimes an employee at a local camera shop can help you out-they like to show al they know. Good Luck!